How I wish I could change the hands of time. It’s unbelievable yet the truth unimaginable yet a reality, unfathomable yet a fact for me thinking of writing a good bye tribute to my beloved brother Paul Chosen Anyaegbunam the chosen one at this period is unimaginable, considering the time but in every situation we have to give glory to God Almighty the giver and taker of life. That faithfully morning Saturday 13th October 2012, you passed on. I shouted God I know it is not your will that Paul should die at this point, I remembered I just spoke with you day before Friday the 12th of October, 2012 around about noon. It is quite painful hearing you in the hospital but the truth of the matter is that God showed you an escape route from this evil world of ours. I am made to understand that death is like an appointment that awaiting every mortal being. The Latin word which says that “onious est mmriendium” meaning all must die. I also believe that it is not how long one spent on earth that matters, but how well and I am happy because I know you spent your years here excellently well and more so in God’s service. I am certain that even as you are being committed to mother earth today, your soul will rest in perfect peace, realizing that your wife and entire Anyaegbunam Family did all we could to provide you the best care available. My Paul if life could be bought with money we were ready to stake what will be needed but God did not make that it way. You choose to sleep in the Lord’s bosom at such an unripe age, to God be the glory. Beloved brother I know dying to be with God is force of history that can break the shackles and reign of fear of death and expose the pretension of the devil and rewards the hope of the decent, the tolerant, the obedient for those of us that are still alive. I see death as a democracy for the entire people kings die and beggars die, the learned men die and the ignorant men die. Since death is neither the prerogative of the rich, strong and influential nor the opium of the poor, the weak and the oppressed people but a common factor, we need not fear it. I tell you all today that the fear of death is the most unqualified of all fears “for there is no risk of accident for someone who is dead” we only need to have faith and hope and believe that death is not the ultimate evil. The ultimate evil is to be outside God’s love. I therefore take solace in the fact that it’s only through this painful human experience called death that freedom, liberty, emancipation and joy to see and be with God is attained. The joy of death is only experienced by the virtuous and it will be forever because the souls of the virtuous are in the hands of God, no torment shall ever touch them (Wis 3: 1-6) You were an epitome of goodness; you had the heart of gold always giving to people that you were better off. Paul with deep and intense sorrow, I my children and husband mourn your demise but we have consoled ourselves by the fact that you are at peace with God before you left this sinful world. I am assured that the Lord will raise you from the dead on the last day as the scripture fore told us in Corinthians 15: 20. God has relieved you of the physical pains of this world to prepare a heavenly abode for you where saints like you are harboured. Adieu “Enyi Umuaka” Adieu “the benevolent one” Adieu “burning candle in the wind” Your Sister, Mrs. Uju Ogbuadike (nee Anyaegbunam)